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DE LA SOUL Paying Homage To David 'Trugoy' Jolicoeur & Speaks on Their Catalogue Finally Streaming
Mar 3, 2023
De La Soul Fans, it's time to rejoice! After a hard-fought battle with legal complexities and copyright wrangling, the legendary Long Island rap trio have finally made their classic albums available for streaming. This return of one of music’s all-time great catalogues - beginning with 1989 masterpiece 3 Feet High And Rising – means that fans can honour the deeply intricate style set by group member now sadly gone but never forgotten. Stream away as if you were there three decades ago!
Pos and Maseo sit down for an intimate interview with Sway In The Morning to pay homage to their late friend and celebrate their music finally being available for streaming.
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DE LA SOUL Paying Homage To David 'Trugoy' Jolicoeur & Speaks on Their Catalogue Finally Streaming
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the inner sound y'all
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let's celebrate today
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we're going to celebrate that voice you
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just heard we're going to celebrate this
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group I say it often the most influence
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the most influential group in my life
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goes by the name of De La Soul oh good
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morning everybody good morning the most
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impactful group on me as an individual
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goes by the name of De La Soul
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I was able to find my voice
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through this phenomenal iconic group
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that goes by the name of what Daniel
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a big round of applause man we got my
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brother Kelvin plug one Mercer here this
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amazing I went all the way that's your
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son
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[Laughter]
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you're my brothers
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and our brother true boy is here with us
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Spirit man he's here to celebrate that
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man that's why I play back that clip
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yeah man definitely definitely that's
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why I play back that clip man and I and
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I reached out when I I found about it
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found out about his passing and the
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celebration started there you know some
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of us you know we we don't know when our
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time is going to come sure don't you
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know that's why it's so important that
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we treat every moment like you know it's
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special yes it can't ever come back but
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the Legacy the impact that this man was
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able to to make alongside you guys it's
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unparalleled so I want to give a big
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round of applause man since the first
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time I ever heard y'all man I told this
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story the other day yep you sure did
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first time I ever came to New York was
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in 1989 88 89 I think it was 89 and I
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was excited and I was scared like at the
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same time being from the West Coast I
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cannot explain it you know walking into
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a new world really under trying to
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really explore hip-hop this culture what
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I thought you know was good about the
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culture and finding uh moments you know
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we came into it B boys B girls dancing
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on Pier 39 Kentucky myself and then
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DJing and graph riding all these things
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and so I remember coming to New York not
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knowing what to expect that's what
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scared me and I went to some basement
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party on the Lower East Side somewhere
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you know and it was all these kids
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dressed differently and I was like wow
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look at all these kids look at their
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hair like look how they're expressing
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themselves look at their clothes look
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like fashionable hand-me-downs right
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and then potholes in my line came on
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that was the first song I ever remember
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hearing wow when I first came to New
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York was potholes in my lawn my goodness
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and there was nothing else in the world
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that sounded like that song King tack
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was with me yeah man I know I tell y'all
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this but I shouldn't attacked all day
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because we came on the radio in 1990
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right
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and we had an idea what we wanted to do
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based on that experience wow yo we can
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do be say look however we want to
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because these guys who made that song
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potholes in my line don't look like
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nobody else and it's a whole party here
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that's going crazy that could identify
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whatever the energy the vibration that
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was coming off your music right and so
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for that reason we were able to have
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confidence in what we were playing on
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that platform the wake-up show when you
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play daylight so or we'll play jungle
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Brothers you know uh or we'll play
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native all the native tongue artists or
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we'll play an artist by the name of
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nasty knives or akinelli that people
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hadn't heard of yet right you know what
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I mean we'll take all these different
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things so for that once again I have to
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say thank you thank you to Daylight Soul
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thank you
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[Applause]
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and I keep going can I keep going yeah
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do what you do best man
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like you know sway gonna say it's about
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give them 10 minutes before before we
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interject
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um and so when you guys came up here a
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few years back and we had this
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conversation
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about why your music wasn't streaming
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y'all remember this conversation and we
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just put our foot in it because I
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thought it was everything that's wrong
4:40
about the music business the music
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industry is why your music wasn't
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streaming yeah everything that's wrong
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about the music business in my opinion
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is why De La Soul hasn't even though you
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received a lot of accolades and
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acknowledgment it's not to the tune of
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your output in which you contributed to
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this culture and how many people have
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been able to eat off of it you know and
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so we had this conversation I remember
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Tommy Silverman and folks reached out to
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me about it you know because I think
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somebody wanted to come talk and I was
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like it's not about that it's about
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getting this story out and it's a shame
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that these juggernauts music can't be
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heard in this new format that we call
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streaming as a result of that I think
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we're part of the Catalyst of the hard
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work that you guys had already began
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even prior to that conversation the
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conversations you've had since then with
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other platforms
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um to salute to those other platforms we
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will be celebrating that de la Soul's
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first six albums will be available on
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Spotify and Amazon 2
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k
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[Applause]
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[Laughter]
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man how does that you know you know is
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it you know well can we talk about David
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first yeah yeah let's talk about David
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first man um true boy was um when you
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hear that clip we just played I could
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play you clips from him 20 years ago
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30 years ago where the messaging is
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still the same right
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y'all met in high school when did you
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first the first day you met him I moved
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from um the Bronx
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uh
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uh and I came into Long Island around
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fourth grade
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first person I met when I got to the
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school
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um was this uh a friend of ours well a
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dear friend now but was this a girl
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named Regina Peters she said I said her
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name how you doing and nice to meet you
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and I was like oh wow cool the second
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person right behind I met was a brother
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named Mike jalakor and through him
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I mean Dave because Mike and Dave were
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brothers okay so I've I I knew and met
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Dave and from fourth grade on so that's
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how long I've known this kid damn fourth
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grade yeah
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a life partner you know what I'm saying
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so y'all weren't rapping in the fourth
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grade like I just knew and in mind you
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even did Dave was like you know that's
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that's Mike's brother Dave but you know
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we doing our thing Dave was like a great
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ahead of us you know and what boys do
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have fun whatever but me and Dave like
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really connected by the time I got to
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like about ninth grade me and them had
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to do the summer course together in
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junior high the pass
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from there I was slumping huh yeah okay
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so from there is where we kind of like
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really like
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like latched on to each other and then
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of course hip-hop just latched onto the
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whole Community yeah you know what I'm
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saying and then from there you put in
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your work and you start realizing who's
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this and who can do that and Dave was
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Ill at Bee Boxing you know he was just a
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Bee Boxer but from there just a good
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friend a good person he was quiet but
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Dave could fight he had a nice knuckle
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game nice yeah okay yeah
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yeah very much so very much so very much
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so a good a good person we you know just
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kids having fun just enjoying music and
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Hip-Hop just took our lives over you
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know did you know like when I met um
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Tech I always put myself in their
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stories Heather because I noticed
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he's trying to keep our legacies
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attacked
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right
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what I noticed about tech early on uh
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when we were in high school is he likes
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to lead right and I grew up with a in
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Oakland with just surrounded by alpha
9:03
males with big fangs right and so it was
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like I thought it was interesting
9:08
because he was in Hayward a different
9:10
place he likes to lead and he seems to
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be great at that organizing The Crew
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That's cool because I didn't want to
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manage all that energy right and that
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stayed consistent through all of our
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success was it something about Dave that
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you notice as a youth that hmm he has
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this certain quality about him that
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stood out but for Dave it was like diff
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Dave was amongst the people who knew him
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yeah
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Dave could bug out laugh but majority of
9:39
people like Dave was really quiet chose
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his words saw things for what it was so
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he like where his brother he was very
9:47
more outgoing so then when you saw his
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talent at something it was just like and
9:52
Dave could draw it like even by the time
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we we go up into like save and
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graduating Dave was on his way to be an
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architect
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wow yeah he went to architectural School
10:03
everything like yeah in the village of
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Amityville and he went to then he
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transferred to uh New York Tech yeah
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yeah so he was just always really good
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at drawing and all that and like I said
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he showed me a sign when it came to
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hip-hop B boxing but his cousin Andy had
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equipment at his house and when I heard
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him rhyme that was my first time like yo
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Dave you rhymed because even me I was
10:30
more like trying to say like I want to
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be a DJ even though I was like a closet
10:34
trying to write words because I was
10:35
always into just writing but Dave this
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Dave from day one had flow
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I mean like a lot of times when you look
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at MC's and you look at their albums and
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you see the progression of like wow like
10:48
yeah he looks he's you can hear the
10:50
confidence coming like from day one Dave
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had this like ill flow from day one and
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it was like it blew me away like I'm
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being honest like anyone who ever tried
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to give me a compliment humble me by
11:03
saying how good I am the only reason why
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is because I couldn't be left behind
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with what I knew he could do
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straight up because it was all there
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like me rhyming me putting together
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words me crafting words me knowing that
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I got a session coming up I craft my
11:19
words hit that plate David be sitting
11:22
right there inspired by me push out a
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rhyme in like 20 minutes 20 minutes just
11:28
like that the same as the rhyme that I
11:29
took like four days different very
11:31
different yeah all day who did he like
11:34
though like we all modeled our Styles
11:36
off of somebody in the beginning because
11:38
he I didn't I couldn't tell his
11:40
I would honestly say it goes as far as
11:43
back to the artist who didn't make
11:46
records like Kaz cool Crush Brothers a
11:50
fantastic romantic treacherous three
11:52
Kumo D specifically you know more of
11:55
those guys the word Smiths yeah yeah
11:57
more more of those guys than anybody
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that we uh that came up with or who made
12:03
actual records you know prior to us it
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was those guys who was more on the
12:09
cassettes from those parties there's
12:12
more been more his inspiration than
12:13
anyone else I think everybody else
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he'll love the day hate him tomorrow
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he was that meticulous and not
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temperamental with music where it's like
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he loves something today
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and then he dissected and be like I
12:27
don't know about that you know he's just
12:29
real different real difference and can
12:31
write a song like pasta in like 20
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minutes that used to frustrate me
12:36
because I'm like bro
12:37
you come in the studio are you knocked
12:40
out the song like you knew the rhyme for
12:42
a month and he could read it off the
12:44
paper like nothing yeah just like that
12:46
when did you come in Maceo I came in in
12:49
84 and I met them in summer school
12:56
okay
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it's a long island and uh we had uh some
13:02
two classes together in summer school
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and I lived right across the street from
13:06
the summer school we were in you know it
13:09
was uh Amityville Junior High I love
13:10
directly across the street and we would
13:13
be in class every morning and then like
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about 11 A.M we at my house or at this
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other dude's house and working on music
13:21
and it just started to click pretty much
13:24
from day one because we were private
13:26
with it we were working with each other
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from school a lot of people didn't even
13:29
know they were MCS to me to everybody
13:33
else they would just pass well Merson
13:36
Dave and we always knew merch was into
13:40
music
13:41
we knew Dave was the beatbox I knew they
13:44
was a part of a crew called Easy Street
13:45
where Posh was the DJ but he writing
13:49
rhymes for these other dudes Dave's
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doing the same thing and he's the
13:53
beatbox by the time we got together it
13:56
was a totally different thing and I
13:57
think it definitely started with that
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tape he's talking about that Dave made
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at his cousin's house because we both
14:05
remember that rhyme to this day how'd
14:08
the rhyme go um
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God not goddess gentle and hottest full
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of Connecticut known to be the hottest
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d-a-v-e is a long story part of my
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position in all my glory money making
14:32
music
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no Looney Tunes could ever be witnessed
14:40
your act is illegal you are the praise
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I'll be the eagle watch one to end with
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my name is JD we'll speculate dreams and
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fulfill your fantasy enter the dude plug
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in the mouthpiece plug one plug two this
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sounds will be released a company
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
15:05
wow
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yeah I'll be doing this and it was over
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it was over like a Sonic drum yeah it's
15:13
a Sonic drum and the the beat was based
15:15
off of kind of like knowledge me
15:16
knowledge me it was kind of like that it
15:19
was
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triple yeah that was the one knowledge
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me triple triple uh who may knowledge me
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uh original concept yeah yeah original
15:29
concept
15:30
wow the song was called drain the
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drummer during the drummer yeah I love
15:35
that man De La Soul is here we're
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celebrating true boy we got to celebrate
15:39
this brother he's here in spirit his
15:42
energies here he's laughing at y'all
15:43
fumbled his lyrics
15:56
this origin story you know that you guys
15:59
are sharing with us is just so important
16:01
and now I want to know like how did the
16:04
name De La Soul come about because when
16:07
I was first introduced to you guys and I
16:09
heard the name and I just instantly felt
16:11
connected to it because one it sounds
16:13
like an exotic Utopia like yeah I want
16:15
to get on a plane and go out to daylight
16:17
so
16:18
and then it also kind of sounds like a
16:21
little Spanish but the black with the
16:24
soul and I was like who are these guys
16:25
they're all black though I'm confused so
16:27
talk to me about that well we was trying
16:29
to figure our names back then we were
16:31
really big in seeing things being
16:33
inspired by it when it came to to figure
16:37
out a name my thoughts on it was like
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look
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I feel like we do everything from our
16:44
heart and soul why don't we call
16:46
ourselves from the soul
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and Dave immediately was like yo I love
16:51
what you're saying but from the soul
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don't
16:54
they don't do it like he was he
16:57
immediately was like why don't you say
16:58
De La Soul and we was like yeah that's
17:02
it that's it it just clicked right away
17:05
so is that where that line came from
17:07
daylight sold from the soul black
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Medallion no gold okay yeah and it's
17:11
like for Dave you know it was like kind
17:14
of his upbringing being an American kid
17:16
with from with parents originally from
17:19
Haiti and he just knew like these
17:21
different way of saying things and and
17:23
and and viewing things and it added so
17:25
much ingredients to what we had and like
17:28
like how you're saying people thought we
17:30
were Spanish wow that's like when we did
17:33
our first show like not in first we like
17:35
we our first install was in the Bronx
17:37
yeah and like nothing but Puerto Ricans
17:39
yeah
17:44
being Haitian that makes so much sense
17:46
because you know Hispaniola yeah shared
17:49
by Haiti and Dominican Republic yeah so
17:52
it sounds like his last name
18:04
[Laughter]
18:09
I'm
18:11
loving that the streaming is happening
18:13
yeah
18:15
did that how did not being able to
18:18
stream impact y'all you know financially
18:20
so I want people to know the reality it
18:23
very painful very very painful um
18:26
especially when um your childhood dream
18:29
becomes a profession yeah you start to
18:31
acquire family responsibilities
18:35
and the business you're in definitely
18:38
has its changes along the way and you
18:41
look to change with it
18:43
when I first got in and I could speak
18:45
for all of us
18:47
when you first start somewhere you don't
18:49
expect to make the maximum dollar you
18:51
start with minimum wage right you know
18:53
especially when somebody's investing in
18:55
which invest in what you do
18:57
but you expect a raise at some point in
19:01
what you're doing and things got
19:03
stagnated we never really got the proper
19:06
you know renegotiations throughout the
19:09
process of being that Tommy Boy
19:13
um once Tom folded that really hurt
19:17
when uh downloading started yeah we
19:20
missed that entire thing the catalog end
19:23
up in the Warner Brothers system for a
19:25
very long time until he was able to
19:27
retrieve it back but throughout that
19:28
whole time we had to tour
19:33
yeah yeah I mean you know if you want
19:36
you love what you do you do it you don't
19:39
know how it's gonna pan out but we just
19:43
put our faith in God
19:45
and kept rolling you know we learned the
19:48
system early on in our career that was
19:51
instilled in Us by Rush management and
19:53
we rolled with that tenement for a very
19:55
long time now that how to manage the
19:58
road is actually the thing that saved us
20:01
the art of managing the road yeah that
20:04
was the main thing that saved us putting
20:07
together a good live show and sticking
20:08
to it and then doing our best to try to
20:11
get in other situations to keep coming
20:13
out with music
20:14
so we wouldn't lose our value for what
20:17
we have been able to sustain you know
20:19
for a long time we've been able to
20:20
sustain at least go and go you know a
20:23
good strong 500 000 fans so we kept
20:26
nurturing that and just kept going just
20:28
trying to focus on the very thing that
20:30
we've been loving since kids and this is
20:33
all we've been doing since we left High
20:34
School
20:36
so to keep focusing on the profession of
20:38
it all the business of it all so we can
20:41
take care of our families you know and
20:43
yes some each some of us our lives are a
20:46
little bit more demanding than others so
20:48
we really got to be there for each other
20:50
you know myself and Pops end up having
20:53
more children than Dave he didn't have
20:55
to really tour like that but he did how
20:58
many children did he have children oh
20:59
yeah yeah okay yeah how many how many
21:01
you got past damn you gonna put my
21:04
business I keep telling y'all sway is a
21:07
radio apps
21:09
[Laughter]
21:12
I mean honestly man my my thoughts too
21:16
on it is like
21:18
I always
21:20
look at things more from a positive
21:22
standpoint because like yo like I come
21:25
from a family where you know my my
21:26
father worked for the New York Transit
21:28
Authority you know my mother worked in
21:31
the school system in the health system
21:32
like
21:34
I was like their dream of like I'm doing
21:37
better than them I from a positive
21:39
standpoint was like yo tauren is great
21:41
like that's my job like right I didn't
21:43
look at it like I had to tour it was
21:45
like I want a tour because that's my job
21:48
I can go someplace and stand on stage
21:51
for an hour and do what I love say what
21:53
I need to say and get paid well for it
21:56
so and in that respect I always try to
21:58
look at it from that side and we were
22:01
always blessed to have the gentleman who
22:03
loved us the the guy or the girl who
22:06
worked at Tommy Boy Who would have
22:08
started in the mail room and they got up
22:10
higher up in their success and they come
22:11
out of nowhere and give us you know
22:14
levels and open doors for us because we
22:16
still was quality in what we do and like
22:19
even like you like as long as we've
22:21
known you man you always had a bridge
22:24
for us to walk over we never burn
22:25
Bridges so I mean for me that meant a
22:29
lot like like I was saying we earned
22:32
what we earn and we deserve we deserve
22:35
but what we had it was a blessing to
22:37
have you know what I'm saying because
22:39
right now we have a lot of fellow peers
22:42
of ours who can't even be yeah that's so
22:46
true it was very I was very grateful for
22:48
that you're very grateful I mean
22:49
learning what we learned early on and
22:51
nurtured it you know nurtured what we
22:54
knew knowing what we can control the
22:57
part that we can't control and that was
22:59
the live performance getting that
23:01
together and sustaining that everything
23:03
else was a push and pull yeah you know
23:07
up until this point and we had we had
23:09
all access to that like when when
23:12
Russell wanted to get out of Rush and he
23:14
was focusing more on the comedy side Leo
23:17
was going to do what he needed to do
23:19
Chris Lighty was like yo you got
23:21
violated come over here with us
23:25
you know we always was like
23:28
um let's let's try to figure out on our
23:30
own so we was always learning from that
23:32
point of just self-sustaining because
23:33
Mesa told this story all the time like
23:35
on our third album balloon mind state
23:39
us and tribe is on tour balloon mind
23:42
State ain't really doing what it needs
23:43
to do and and Leon sat us down on tour
23:47
you could hear tri-born killing it and
23:49
Leo was like yo this album is not doing
23:51
what y'all need to do uh
23:53
I'm going to tell y'all y'all need to
23:55
tighten your belts
23:56
and and get ready for the storm yeah he
23:59
said that was the best thing he could
24:01
ever ever said to us wow you know you
24:04
know there's a lot of people who have
24:06
mixed emotions about Leo you know I
24:09
could say you know in the beginning I
24:11
got early Leo you know you know he was
24:14
always
24:16
pretty much a monster you know when it
24:19
came to business yeah when I came to
24:21
business it's a monster but yeah he
24:22
would be a monster for you you know you
24:25
just got to be careful when he's being a
24:27
monster towards you yeah you know yeah
24:29
and he was the monster for us in the
24:31
right situation especially when labels
24:34
weren't really supportive of their
24:36
artists and given tour support and
24:38
things that would actually things that
24:40
would nurture selling records other than
24:42
just touring you know if we could marry
24:45
these two worlds together we could be
24:47
successful on both ends I knew that was
24:49
more to it than just touring just about
24:52
being under rush and learning a lot of
24:55
what was going on rolling up to Def Jam
24:57
and seeing how their system was rolling
25:00
versus Tommy Boy system yeah so I I got
25:03
to do some comparing and I learned a lot
25:06
and realized yeah we love touring but
25:08
there's more to this than just touring
25:09
yeah oh yeah there's levels to it like
25:11
come on we started touring the upper
25:13
room that's right the upper room in the
25:15
Bay Area in the Bay Area yes yes but
25:17
then there's levels to this at some
25:19
point I do want to be in Radio City
25:21
uh-huh amen that's that's that's the
25:25
reason of why we start Underground to
25:27
grow to another to grow yeah anybody any
25:30
any artists who say they don't want to
25:32
be successful in this or have some kind
25:34
of mainstream success they're a liar
25:36
they're a total liar everybody would
25:38
love to have the fruits and vegetables
25:41
yeah of mainstream success yes you know
25:45
yeah
25:47
some green juice yeah you know
25:51
undeniably you can see how it feels you
25:54
know you just want it your way you know
25:57
you want you want it to be you want your
25:59
your music and your whatever it is
26:02
you're doing to be accepted in an
26:04
authentic way you don't want to be no
26:06
fraud yeah you know for the most part
26:08
that's what I knew we needed to have
26:10
like just to be able to continue to do
26:12
this 30 plus years later we need to
26:15
share a lot of other parts of the fabric
26:17
of this business and just that are being
26:19
stuck in one lane yep you know it's
26:22
interesting
26:23
um
26:23
before balloon blind state was De La
26:26
Soul is dead
26:27
and that was a great album by the way
26:30
round of applause for that album right
26:32
uh and to me the messaging in that album
26:36
uh which was made in about what 91 yeah
26:39
you could play today
26:42
and what's happened in recent years in
26:45
the music business and music you know
26:47
you could play today and it'll still be
26:49
applicable I always wondered if the
26:52
title though had a a reverse effect of
26:56
the success of that album like here in
26:59
daylight soul is dead scared me right
27:01
after the first time what do you mean
27:03
does that mean I'm dead like what does
27:04
that mean I didn't understand that um
27:07
until I heard the album right yeah you
27:09
know what I mean uh but what kind of
27:11
effect did that title have to Tommy Boy
27:14
that reverse effect yeah okay they were
27:17
a little afraid especially when at that
27:19
time labels would like you to replicate
27:21
success yeah give us another me myself
27:24
and I it's just not gonna happen you
27:26
know
27:27
um it was also
27:29
killing off of an idea
27:32
that people were misconstruing the whole
27:35
hippie thing yeah
27:36
um misunderstanding what Daisy meant and
27:39
all of that you know and granted it
27:40
reminded people of some great things but
27:42
that just wasn't us and we knew we
27:45
couldn't get boxed into something that
27:46
would inhibit us from making more music
27:48
so it was all about killing off the
27:51
whole Daisy age well the the idea of the
27:55
hippie thing behind the daisy age and
27:58
then also the title came behind being at
28:01
rush one day
28:02
and seeing this crazy schedule
28:05
on the board of all the albums that were
28:08
dropping of all the artists going on the
28:10
road and you know you get to see
28:12
everyone's schedule on this this
28:14
chalkboard and we were filled up on the
28:17
calendar us leaders brand new being and
28:21
it was definitely us us you just see us
28:23
and Dave erased the entire board and
28:26
wrote De La Soul is dead on every or
28:29
every calendar date that we had on the
28:32
ground they wrote because he was like yo
28:35
this is going to kill us hey
28:37
and that's how the title actually
28:39
morphed that's how the title came yeah
28:42
we laughed yeah because we was in Rush
28:45
looking at it he just said
28:47
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28:52
was like yo that would be a dope title
28:55
for an album yeah and we was like yo
28:57
let's do it and at that point we didn't
28:59
know what it would really mean but then
29:02
it became like yo this could mean like
29:04
how death is transitioning
29:06
crazy we're talking about that right now
29:08
but it's like it was like us
29:10
transitioning from the daisy age into
29:12
this these growing men you know and it
29:16
made sense and I understand even from
29:18
from a label standpoint they was like
29:19
look you had something that was so
29:21
inclusive you know and we understood
29:25
that but we felt like the fans that we
29:28
saw was willing to grow as well you know
29:30
what I'm saying it wasn't really push
29:32
somewhere someone away in which not
29:35
being inclusive would be
29:37
not spending your money on De La Soul so
29:39
I got it people was really
29:42
um like nah man you shouldn't say de las
29:43
was dead but we was like nah man like
29:45
death is like a way of transitioning
29:47
into something else yep wow it really is
29:50
what it is it had around
29:54
that's where we been I shared with you I
29:56
lost my grandmother this week so I I
29:58
yeah man but that it
30:00
death is a way of transitioning to
30:02
something else right and we've been
30:05
celebrating I came in because I wanted
30:07
to make sure I talked to y'all you know
30:09
otherwise you wouldn't you know
30:12
you know but because of this reasons you
30:14
know we sharing these losses you know
30:16
and I'm glad you said that Stakes is
30:19
high was that your response to Leora
30:22
saying
30:23
what's that you know did y'all go to the
30:25
studio and go man we got to do something
30:26
different and then snakes is high came
30:28
out well I think Texas high was more
30:31
feeling like it's a crucial moment okay
30:34
either we gonna continue or are we going
30:37
to be done with this and go get day jobs
30:40
and wow because you know you get plagued
30:43
with
30:44
this industry yeah telling you telling
30:47
you that yo by your third album you're
30:49
probably gonna be done yeah you know
30:51
they they treated it like high school or
30:53
college success you know and then we
30:56
begin to learn things especially for
30:57
marketing meetings where
31:00
women in hip-hop are done with it after
31:03
college
31:04
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31:06
right and then when you know and I would
31:08
do my own little groundwork and talk to
31:11
women and they would be like um hip-hop
31:13
was something I was into when I was
31:14
younger or my college Years my high
31:18
school years
31:19
and your big consumer Market is women
31:21
and children Men Don't Buy nothing they
31:25
buy what women like
31:27
or what their kids want
31:29
more than anything when it comes to
31:30
hip-hop men are critics
31:33
they the ones who say that's hot that's
31:36
not but they're not ones really
31:37
purchasing it's women and children
31:40
that's your Buy in public
31:42
especially when it comes to
31:44
a group like De La Soul it was more
31:47
women and children
31:48
you know and yeah getting plagued with
31:52
those ideas yeah so it was very crucial
31:54
I never forget Dave being kind of
31:57
uptight about it being very crucial
31:59
that's when we
32:02
um severed our relationship with Paul
32:08
it was really on a good note it was just
32:11
you wanted something different having
32:12
difference of creative creativity and
32:15
where our lives was a lot more serious
32:16
at this point yeah so doing all the
32:19
comical stuff didn't quite it showed up
32:22
but naturally you know as you can see
32:24
Stakes is high was a much more serious
32:26
record talking about what was happening
32:28
in the industry what's happening in our
32:30
lives and where we think this is going
32:33
and hoping that it worked out in it it
32:35
did work out obviously you know yeah it
32:38
was a very crucial moment of saying that
32:40
this is going to be the record
32:41
determined whether we're going to
32:42
continue or we done yeah it was the it
32:45
was the first album where we actually
32:47
had the title right at the top of
32:50
recording normally that happens later
32:52
like what is this going to be but yeah
32:55
it was like everything May said Dave's
32:59
cousin fuzz fudge I was about to say
33:00
it's like yo man rest in peace fudge you
33:02
said steaks is hot and we was like
33:05
yo that's it yo the work y'all fine
33:08
albums
33:09
no it was it was really like that so we
33:12
went in with the gold and like he said
33:14
we had already actually started working
33:16
some on some stuff with Paul but yeah
33:19
it's just like that chamber that Paul
33:21
has that he's so good at it wasn't
33:23
meshing with mentally where we wanted to
33:26
go and save for for this album salute
33:30
the prince part oh yeah he saw it in the
33:32
beginning
33:34
that's my mentor he changed my life yeah
33:37
yeah totally I saw I saw the Grammy
33:40
performance right
33:42
um I know that must have been it raised
33:44
a lot of questions but the fact that
33:46
child were represented there I thought
33:48
to me I was like that's amazing yeah you
33:51
know how did it feel it felt really good
33:54
and sad at the same time it was
33:56
bittersweet for me yeah because you're
33:58
right they reached out they wanted us to
34:00
represent they they felt like we can't
34:02
even do this without y'all on the
34:04
timeline but I knew like where Dave was
34:07
with his health that it was maybe touch
34:09
and go you know so
34:11
it he was trying to get there he was
34:14
trying to make it he tried to make it
34:15
yeah what does that mean he was trying
34:17
to was he bedridden or what no no he was
34:19
he was up and around he was doing what
34:21
he was doing but he he actually just
34:23
caught a really bad cold and but with
34:25
his immune system just kind of already a
34:27
bit compromising yeah you know they've
34:29
had heart issues so that's where it was
34:31
just kind of like he didn't know if he
34:32
could get on the plane dealing with all
34:34
that pressure of flying to get to me to
34:37
rot so yeah it was it was bittersweet
34:40
and we we spoke about this like if Dave
34:43
passed on a Sunday we was on the phone
34:44
with each other Thursday and I'm just
34:46
telling him about how much people
34:48
have so much love for us I mean I'm
34:50
talking about from the biggest star in
34:53
that room that day to the the security
34:57
guy you know
34:58
everyone was grabbing me yeah like yo
35:01
we're so happy for y'all we can't wait I
35:03
see Rick Ross I just give him that
35:05
whatever I'm about to he pulls me back
35:07
like yo
35:08
I'm happy for you man yes I'm ready
35:11
we've been having some really good
35:12
moments can you share some just just
35:15
talking amongst each other yeah and
35:18
preparing for all of this yeah so to
35:20
lose Dave was like it was a big blow
35:23
because we was really on the phone like
35:25
like kids again yo I'm ready yeah we're
35:28
gonna get ready we're gonna do this he
35:29
was like no you see you see Melly Melody
35:31
you see the emotions
35:38
we really messing up out here you know
35:40
what I'm saying
35:41
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35:43
I was like Mel Chuck flavor yeah we
35:46
gotta get up here we got it and we was
35:48
all laughing and bugging out man yeah
35:50
yeah and we were very proud immersed he
35:53
was very proud of Mercy holding it down
35:55
really looking good up there sounded
35:58
good looking legendary
36:00
good look legendary
36:04
I put the specs back on oh yeah
36:16
get that boy you did that boy boy
36:21
thank you man it was a blessing man
36:23
standing there even with Chuck I mean
36:26
everybody yeah and Chuck was even saying
36:28
it like yo man like he was saying it
36:30
then like yo everyone take this in like
36:32
get these pictures hug cause yeah
36:36
that's what I was gonna say because
36:38
Chuck was here a couple weeks ago kg was
36:41
here from Naughty by Nature Vinnie was
36:42
here we just been having these
36:44
conversations and like off the record I
36:46
saw Merce outside and we just hugged
36:49
each other so tight in front of the food
36:51
truck mace walked in we just hugged each
36:53
other so it's my my brother
36:56
yeah
36:57
come on
36:59
man like these are my brothers from
37:01
doing shows together for them too
37:06
now she owed me that she told me that
37:09
one but you was on the road with them
37:11
for my days with Chris to KRS one all
37:15
the way up it's a solo artists like you
37:17
talking 30 years yeah you know and so
37:19
when y'all say that and these hugs
37:21
everything just means something so
37:23
different now like you use the work take
37:25
care take care don't mean the same thing
37:27
it meant 30 years ago like now we got to
37:30
take care of each other spiritually and
37:32
mentally and then physically as well
37:34
yeah so I just want to remind you like
37:37
we got to take care of each other we
37:38
just really do it's just different like
37:41
remember back then when Scott LaRock
37:43
passed or God forbid Biggie and pop it
37:46
was just like the world stopped it was
37:48
breaking news these murders now we're
37:50
losing our brothers and sisters and it's
37:52
like you pause for a minute and then you
37:54
just gotta keep going but we gotta
37:56
double back and check on people now
37:58
because the taking care is different we
38:01
have to mentally and emotionally and
38:03
spiritually take care of each other so
38:05
I'm just glad y'all are here you know
38:07
and I love y'all love you too and that's
38:09
what those tight hugs
38:11
for real face brought his kids too that
38:14
was archetypes
38:17
Uncle sway got some money
38:24
you know uncles that's all we do now
38:28
man yeah
38:31
do I know you
38:33
did I meet you before we never met
38:35
before okay I feel like I've met you
38:37
know faith
38:40
oh I know the name
38:53
[Laughter]
39:15
we just did it in front of the hotel we
39:17
stand in front of the Hotel this dude
39:19
walking by I'm like yo he looks familiar
39:21
but I was gonna let it go make sure it's
39:22
like nah like yo yeah why do I know you
39:24
you say you acted he said well I'm a
39:26
singer but I I act as well I was in I
39:28
was in The Wire we was like yo
39:31
he played the um recovering addict
39:35
talking about talking about yeah
39:38
crazy yeah we gotta do that like we're
39:41
saying ever since like even especially
39:42
with when the pandemic kicked in and we
39:45
was in the house and yo come coming out
39:47
Dave Chappelle doing things man like I
39:49
hug people like yo I can rap comments oh
39:51
yeah and I was like yo man I have to man
39:53
I'm not letting you go like it's that
39:55
serious and it's really good like even
39:57
when my youngest son like to see him
39:59
Express himself when he wants to talk to
40:01
me about things and like yo man I want
40:03
to talk to you and like I didn't do that
40:05
with my father like that was my idol but
40:07
I didn't pull my father to the side and
40:09
tell him about what's going on with me
40:10
and like I'm happy that these younger
40:12
kids are doing that and like I'm feeling
40:15
at the age I'm at like with my brothers
40:17
man I want to talk to them yes they may
40:19
not be here you don't want to feel like
40:21
yo I didn't get to say what I need to
40:23
say to this person on that note can you
40:26
guys speak a bit about your healing
40:28
process because I gotta say when I first
40:30
saw you guys on the calendar I was a bit
40:33
surprised and I said wow are they ready
40:35
because it's been still under a month
40:38
yeah you know and this industry it
40:41
always moves and I think about Kanye who
40:43
went on tour immediately after the
40:45
passing of his mother I'm thinking about
40:47
ever seeing offset so many places but
40:49
people have different ways of coping you
40:53
know and some people it's like I want to
40:55
be surrounded by love and I want to
40:57
speak about the person who has
40:59
transitioned other people may need to
41:01
hibernate a bit what is being outside
41:04
like and still being De La Soul right
41:07
now how is that impacting you both can I
41:10
curse yeah weird as [ __ ] weird
41:15
my man ain't here
41:16
I got moments like now I'm trying not to
41:20
cry listening to suede talk I just gotta
41:23
pause because it's rough it's day by day
41:26
for me
41:27
pause put the battery in my back to come
41:30
outside not you you know this
41:33
this beat street is the movie we've
41:37
always related to come on through our
41:39
childhood
41:40
so today
41:43
we actually celebrating our Ramon um
41:48
yeah our Ramon yeah
41:53
so he was spiraling in the rabbit hole I
41:55
said nah [ __ ] I'm coming to your house
41:57
yep he came to the house I'm glad you
42:00
got him my wife my kids and him
42:03
got me out my hole good my kids my wife
42:07
they just held me you know and we helped
42:10
me get through it because I know I gotta
42:11
face it yeah I gotta face this quicker
42:14
than I face Fife you know yeah for men I
42:17
couldn't touch no tribe records but I
42:19
know I gotta step into this for what we
42:22
were preparing for and
42:26
he would want this he would he need me
42:28
to Dave needs me to stop up yeah and me
42:32
seeing the family on Saturday going to
42:36
his house was definitely more
42:37
affirmation to get out here and still
42:40
hold it down you know his entire family
42:43
was like
42:45
you guys are brothers we know y'all
42:47
loved each other Dave would want y'all
42:49
to continue on I mean hearing is from
42:51
his sister his cousins and everybody
42:54
else it was it was definitely inspiring
42:57
yeah I don't know how I don't know what
42:59
that how is yeah I just know I'ma Do It
43:02
and I'm gonna just take it day by day
43:04
you know yeah sometimes God is the house
43:07
yeah you're right yeah and the hell
43:09
comes from knowing your why yeah yeah I
43:11
got faith I got a lot of faith in God
43:13
you got a faith really
43:16
that's why you brought it yeah no I mean
43:19
like for me it was it was like and God
43:21
don't make no mistakes amen for me
43:24
immediately
43:25
the first night all I was saying was
43:28
damn Dave like damn man like
43:32
you gonna like
43:34
we lost you like damn like we was about
43:36
to do it all this hard work like damn
43:38
and like you just you know you you in
43:40
your depression State and for me
43:42
immediately the next night I had to turn
43:44
into like
43:45
thank you Dave thank you for being my
43:48
brother yeah thank you for everything
43:50
you've ever
43:51
put into our hearts this music I I and
43:56
right now every night I go to bed saying
43:59
thank you Dave I wake up saying thank
44:00
you Dave wow and that's what it is for
44:02
me to be grateful for everything that he
44:05
contributed to our lives period and that
44:10
helps me to know what it is and this is
44:12
what I learned actually at a young age
44:14
right before we came out when I lost my
44:16
mom's you know I graduated from high
44:18
school the next day after graduation my
44:21
mother got diagnosed with cancer
44:22
and lung cancer never smoked a day in
44:25
their life wow so these are these things
44:27
that you know throughout running through
44:29
the paths I always try to be positive
44:31
man I look at what what things mean and
44:34
what it and and not not shy away from
44:37
what's going on but just try to look at
44:39
the agreeable side of things and you
44:42
know Dave had an amazing life he didn't
44:44
leave this earth
44:46
and a sense of his life he didn't
44:49
contribute anything to to to his family
44:52
he gave a lot to his family and he gave
44:55
so much to the world like where people
44:57
who he don't even know knows him you
45:00
know and I said who gets to do that not
45:02
a lot of people let alone touch people
45:04
in such a positive way and we as
45:06
daylight was has always been more of a
45:08
personable group never been like
45:10
unapproachable and that's why I hit
45:13
really hard for people you know like it
45:15
really hit hard you know like fans
45:17
hitting Dave's sister you know like yo
45:20
can we just come stand in front of the
45:22
house and pray like they really mean
45:24
that yeah bro you know man you know yeah
45:27
yeah I woke up this morning and said
45:31
I'm on time Dave
45:38
don't worry I will be at sways on time
45:41
finally
45:48
that's good I'm wondering and I know
45:52
you'll probably be asked this but I know
45:54
there's some unreleased Day verses
45:56
somewhere right okay yeah so I you know
46:02
will we hear more De La Soul music I I
46:05
would say yes okay
46:07
put it like this I'm gonna say yes
46:10
myself in past we gotta sit down and
46:13
talk about how we gonna really approach
46:14
this yeah figure out how to keep this
46:19
not just our Legacy his legacy alive and
46:23
get on that stage and do what we do you
46:25
know we just gotta I mean once we get
46:28
through tonight and tomorrow we're gonna
46:31
sit down top of next week and figure
46:33
some things out what's what's happening
46:35
tonight tonight is the release the
46:38
release party slash memorial for our
46:40
Ramon okay I'm saying it's a Beat Street
46:43
night okay if you don't know Ramon is he
46:47
was the character that got electrocuted
46:49
on the third rail he was a graph Rider
46:51
right uh aerosol can you know artists
46:55
and um he he died and they had a big
46:58
celebration at the end it was a New
47:00
Year's Eve party that turned into a
47:02
memorial service and it was a
47:04
celebration yeah to a celebration
47:06
yeah yeah I'm hoping Mel show up tonight
47:09
and perform that song
47:11
I talked the flash I talked to fly so
47:14
I'm hoping flash get the crew and bring
47:15
them through for real but if not we
47:18
gonna end improv tonight we got the
47:20
originals DJing yeah DC nice clock Kent
47:23
Tony touch stretch out strong yeah Rich
47:27
Medina can we say this on where's it at
47:29
um yes at Webster Hall
47:31
I'm saying I'm saying
47:35
pandemonium for my man that's right
47:38
yeah and really like I'm gonna honestly
47:40
say please
47:44
it's gonna be crazy like that though
47:46
come show your love no no violence No No
47:48
Nonsense
47:50
don't come with the nonsense don't come
47:53
with the nonsense yeah and the music
47:54
will be streaming and we will continue
47:58
to uh support play it the whole nine man
48:01
celebrate celebrate man we got a few
48:03
folks on the line before y'all go y'all
48:05
might if we do that
48:06
let's go to Maryland D'Angelo's on the
48:08
line what up what up dude
48:10
what's up what's up where you have the
48:13
trade what's going on what's good
48:23
[Music]
48:30
but yo hey yo I'm gonna hey sway I'm
48:34
gonna tell you straight up man I need
48:35
some good dudes I don't know if mace
48:37
remember me from back in the day at
48:39
Salisbury Maryland with uh with ski with
48:41
ski uh from back in the day yeah yeah
48:48
look man look they would they were good
48:50
dude
48:59
what's up my brother
49:01
go away what's good hey uh we was in we
49:04
was in uh Mason's room and I said I said
49:07
mace man where you Loop that beat from
49:09
he said if I tell you I gotta kill you
49:13
sound like mace
49:22
take care brother you're super citizen
49:24
man in the morning let's go to Florida
49:26
we got Efren on the line Ephraim Rising
49:28
shot what's good so hey how's it going
49:30
everybody
49:32
I'm super excited for tomorrow we we
49:35
actually have a a daylight so uh uh
49:38
daylight Soul day party at crowbar
49:40
you played crowbar a few times yes I
49:43
have I remember crowbar Yeah we actually
49:46
got Prince Paul coming down
49:49
we planned this we playing this party
49:51
six months ago
49:53
party in July and right after that we
49:57
said who else should we celebrate and we
49:58
picked the day of the the uh uh uh three
50:02
feet high and rise and release and then
50:04
after that you guys announced that it's
50:06
going to be going to streaming uh and
50:09
and I'm just super excited you know I'm
50:11
super excited I don't think people
50:12
really understand how big this is I
50:14
think this should be an annual thing the
50:16
3-3 is daylight sold day wow
50:29
I couldn't find a lot of your videos
50:31
it's like they wiped them all out so I
50:33
found a couple of them on Dailymotion
50:35
Vimeo but I found that it's so easy
50:38
video and that was one of my favorite
50:40
videos and I just was curious how was it
50:43
shooting that video with so many
50:54
man that was one of the most fun videos
50:56
yeah it was pretty much everybody we
50:59
grew up with in this business you know
51:01
the love that day the excitement that
51:04
they it actually we shot it in a old
51:07
high school so it felt like a high
51:09
school day you know it was a lot of fun
51:12
a lot of good energy all those brothers
51:14
and sisters are family yeah man yeah man
51:18
I'm I'm so excited I actually did a
51:20
t-shirt for the event tomorrow
51:25
you going in right now
51:28
it says
51:32
thanks
51:36
stream this album I mean we have the
51:39
power to put all six of these albums in
51:42
the top ten next week
51:44
let's do it let's do that y'all
51:47
come on yeah I salute you bro hey Efren
51:50
guess what tomorrow March 3rd is on the
51:53
day that on Rock The Bells radio they've
51:55
dubbed as daylight day so it already
51:57
exists okay rock the bells they're gonna
52:00
be playing um De La Soul music all day
52:02
uh I'll definitely tune in where where
52:05
our daily Soul make sure you follow that
52:07
the catalog hits all it man and here's
52:10
the thing man these albums are works of
52:13
art
52:15
all of them man I I you're gonna get you
52:18
will enjoy streaming from the first
52:21
album to the last it makes sense yeah
52:23
nothing was frivolous it was awesome
52:37
[Music]
52:40
all right uh gentlemen I just you know
52:43
I'm glad we got a chance to talk today
52:45
and let's continue these conversations
52:46
we started the revolution
52:51
the Revolution was televised right here
52:56
and in the world went into a daylight
52:59
Soul friends shut it down but everybody
53:03
started jumping on board that's when the
53:05
culture works at its finest yeah man
53:07
yeah right it wasn't about industry we
53:09
had to support and protect our own
53:11
absolutely nothing about metrics uh
53:13
industry budgets none of that [ __ ] this
53:16
was fired up it was fueled by culture it
53:19
was no way that they can do this if they
53:21
can do that to daylight so imagine what
53:24
they can do to you yeah yeah no doubt at
53:28
1989. it's when the first album came out
53:31
crazy do the math is that 34 years yes
53:35
indeed
53:36
would you love to be have a career for
53:40
34 years and counting so if they're not
53:44
taken care of you won't be taken care of
53:46
facts this would be that would be the
53:48
president but we reversed all that [ __ ]
53:50
and so tomorrow make sure you streaming
53:52
this daylight Soul music come on man
53:54
just keep it on streams I don't know why
53:57
uh Pandora is it on Pandora
54:02
[Applause]
54:04
you're in the building yeah that's Tisha
54:07
Campbell waving in here Lisa Campbell
54:08
got to come in here
54:12
if I could I want to make sure I just
54:14
give a big shout to Reservoir Yeah Yeah
54:18
man they they really stepped in they
54:21
didn't have to do what they did once
54:23
they acquired Tommy Boy it's beyond just
54:26
being fans of our music and even us
54:27
knowing different people up there
54:29
whether it was spec faithful we've known
54:31
for for years
54:33
um they're good people they were fair to
54:35
us we talked it out and we we did what
54:38
we need to do and I want to just really
54:40
I really want to thank you even honestly
54:42
after everything was right with us you
54:45
know just the process of clearing and
54:47
you know just all the stuff the business
54:49
that needed to be taken care of they was
54:51
right there front and center with us so
54:53
I mean it's been a blessing it's an
54:54
amazing team at Reservoir
54:57
um look look forward to the future of
54:59
reservoir media there's going to be a
55:00
lot of good things going on let's go
55:02
literally absolutely and Dave is smiling
55:04
on us right now amen he's in the room
55:07
with the tooth missing
55:10
and I know that haircut right
55:15
um I just wanted to bring Tisha and
55:17
Yvette Nicole Brown
55:19
[Music]
55:34
you already know what it is call us up
55:38
888-742-3345 yes
55:40
um um I want to thank you fellas let's
55:42
keep going yes man all day yo we we
55:46
brought them to the bay to perform for
55:48
the wake up show like we've done it on
55:51
every level indeed yeah nobody thought
55:55
hip-hop would take it this far
56:19
and I smelled phenomenal
56:25
daughters all day
56:29
women like me because I dress like y'all
56:38
a whole shirt look popping back there
56:41
the older and dustier y'all made it cool
56:45
anyway thrift shops became boutiques
56:51
but you cannot deny the messaging
56:55
deny the Divine messaging in your music
56:57
is why you've been here 34 years and
57:00
keep going David's still here come back
57:03
fellas yes
57:04
I
57:07
want to shout out my wife Tina Mason
57:10
amen my son Chauncey my daughter Dieu my
57:15
other son Trey I just want to say thank
57:18
you for being by my side amen for real
57:20
well then my brother pass Yeah by my
57:24
side you know and I want to shout out
57:27
one particular group
57:29
the locks yeah
57:31
I see their relationship for a long time
57:34
yeah they're Brothers they remind me of
57:38
us yeah yeah
57:40
I see the camaraderie I see the
57:43
Brotherhood I see the family and them
57:45
that I don't really see in no other
57:47
group outside of tribe and jungle yeah
57:50
I want to say stay strong Brothers yeah
57:52
stay strong love on each other keep
57:55
supporting each other amen take it all
57:57
the way to the Grave amen there you go
58:00
man give it up for Maceo give it off the
58:02
plug one yeah wow Maceo Mason plug one
58:05
Mercer
58:06
[Applause]
58:08
we celebrating tonight we streaming
58:11
tonight I'm out west the hall tonight
58:29
my sister is up next Tisha Campbell
58:32
what's up next she didn't come along
58:41
hey torch give us some day live some
58:44
classic
58:46
foreign
58:49
foreign
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